"The scenery of the Eastern Dynasties, if it is in a foreign country, this trip is not worthwhile." After living in a state-run guest house in Boling County, Zhao Chuyan, who washed his face with a towel, smiled at his two servants and said.

Today is September 11, 1682, and it seems that there is still more than a month before their departure, and some members of the mission have been ordered to return south to Liucheng Harbor, the naval base of the people on the east coast, and work together with the remaining personnel on the "King Hyeonjong" to make all the preparations before the voyage - well, the most important thing is to find a way to get the easterners to help free some of the cost of repairing the ships, otherwise I am afraid that there will not be enough money to buy goods.

"Hanshu Goods and Colonization" cloud: everyone lives and works in peace, is willing to eat and wears beautifully, which shows how important it is to live and work in peace and contentment. The North Korean people you met on the road, do you think they can live and work in peace? Sitting at the only table in the room, Zhao Chuyan habitually wanted to drink tea, but found that there was nothing, so he was a little embarrassed.

He seems to have forgotten that, for the sake of saving money, the guest house where they live (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the East Bank subsidizes half of the cost, and the rest of the North Koreans pay for themselves) does not provide tea, snacks, melons and fruits, and has to bring everything by themselves. Yesterday's dinner was the dry food that Zhao Chuyan's two servants went to the kitchen of the guest house to borrow some utensils and cook. After all, it is not easy to live on the east coast, and the consumption level here is not low, especially in these so-called service industries. The North Korean mission has been out for a long time, and it has long been beyond its means, and if it weren't for the sponsorship of a sum of money from time to time by enterprises such as the East Bank Company, Sun Chunyangnan's store, and the state-run department store, they would not have been living on the streets, and how could they still be as carefree as they are now, wandering around like a tourist.

"Master, the tea is gone, but there is still some soup." After obtaining Zhao Chuyan's consent, the servant found some ginseng that had been treasured to this day from his luggage, intending to make a soup. Like North Korea and China, people on the east coast also drink tea first and then tea, and the tea is sent away, which is just the opposite of the order of tea first and then soup in the former Song Dynasty (this Zhao Chuyan can complain again...... Therefore, there are many soup materials on the market that can be bought, and Zhao Guangming bought some before, such as dried fruits, astragalus, dates, orange peels, etc., which can be used to cook for his own master, but the tools have to ask the store to borrow, and they have to give a few copper plates to use the fee, which is still quite painful.

When the servants were busy outside, Zhao Chuyan looked at the decoration in the house stupidly. This is actually a very ordinary brick house, and there is nothing outstanding about it, but the space is relatively large. There are some furniture in the house, and the model should be a common style in the East, such as the so-called sofa that is somewhat similar to the bed - in fact, Zhao Chuyan is very strange about the origin of the name, why is it called the sofa, it is obviously a variant of the more popular bed in the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Dongguo people really don't read poetry and books, so that they lost their minds and went crazy, and they chose the name indiscriminately.

There is a stove on one side of the bed, which is used for scones. Chile is said to have a humid climate, and the winters are bitterly cold, and the food is hard to eat without grilling. There are many types of Dongguo cakes, such as Hu cakes, cooking cakes, steamed cakes, hemp cakes, oil cakes, etc., which are very good as dry food, but if you don't need to bake them over the fire for a long time, it will be very uncomfortable to eat - of course, for people like Zhao Chuyan who are clothed and fed, this kind of feeling is rare, they eat dry food very little, and they have just experienced it because of financial constraints after coming to Dongguo.

Another item in the house was a bit surprising, it was a porcelain vase placed in the middle of the table, I don't know what it was for, probably to fill it with water. This porcelain vase Zhao Chuyan has just carefully studied, it should be made locally on the east coast, revealing a very strong style of the former Song Dynasty kiln and magnetic kiln (the descendants of the former Song Dynasty kiln workers captured by Mo Dashuai in Shandong back then), but the craftsmanship is not at home, only to see that the wall of this porcelain vase is thin, the fetal quality is not pure enough, and the shape is not regular, it should not be called a good work in China, and can only be sold and sent out in the cheapest way.

However, on the eastern side, this porcelain is also placed in the hotel room, so it should not be regarded as a particularly valuable thing. Zhao Chuyan was a little groaning on this, it was difficult to judge the porcelain firing level of the Dongguo people, he instinctively felt that it should be far inferior to China. It's a pity that when I took a boat south along the coastline before, I didn't stop at the Patagonia Plateau to rest, I heard that it is the porcelain manufacturing capital of the Easterners, and I should go to see it, but it's a pity!

The servant, Zhao Guangming, soon returned with hot soup, along with several North Koreans in sky-blue jeans. To be more precise, they are Korean-origin East Coast nationals, all of whom are first-generation immigrants who have lived on the East Coast for many years, and they still have some feelings for their homeland, so after seeing the two classes of nobles Zhao Chuyan at first glance, he knelt down on his knees and kept saying some greetings in Korean.

Zhao Chuyan's face softened slightly. These pop talents, who were originally North Korean pariahs living in Gyeongsang-do, actually secretly went to Busan to beg for a living, and then came to Dongguo by boat immigration boat, which was self-isolation from Wanghua, Zhao Chuyan didn't care about them, but considering that the generation in Chile is not familiar with the place, there are these North Koreans who have lived for many years, and they can also learn more about some information, so they sent someone to contact them, and then called over.

These people, who lived outside the city, learned that the envoy of their home country was short of funds, so they made an urgent trip home, took some game as a gift, and then rode back to the county seat. Zhao Chuyan's face was a little hot when he learned this, and at the same time he was a little moved, these people came to the east across the sea, the initial life should be very hard, and even now it may not be rich, but he is actually willing to take out some precious meat to share with the guests from the mother country, this is indeed a sincere and filial piety heart, Zhao Chuyan is quite pleasing to his heart, and plans to carefully ask the names of these righteous people for a while, and write their deeds into the "Eastward Journey".

"Your horses are all your own, aren't they?" Zhao Chuyan asked while drinking the soup. After receiving affirmative answers from these Koreans, he was a little silent, but then comforted himself with the cattle, horses, and sheep of Hudi.

"My lord, this place is simple, it is better to move to the shop in my city, it is more spacious and the conditions are better, and it will not insult the identity of the adult." A North Korean, who looked a little rich, looked at the furnishings in the hotel and said immediately. He ran an oil shop in the city, and the business was still good, so he persuaded him.

Zhao Chuyan sighed when he heard this, waved his hand and politely rejected this person's kindness, and then said with some bad feelings: "You are originally an outcast of the country, and you have cut yourself off from the king, and there are many criticisms from the government and the opposition in the country. However, the envoy was not a pedantic person, and he was relieved to see that he was living well in this eastern country. I accepted a little of your thoughts, and as for the rest, don't mention it again, so be it. ”

Several Koreans nodded their heads again and again. Zhao Chuyan also lost interest in further in-depth conversation with them, and after politely declining the request to eat with them, he hastily used some Hu cakes and meat cakes, and then took two servants out into the street to observe the scenery.

Before leaving, in order to thank these people for their gifts, Zhao Chuyan asked people to bring the four treasures of the study, and then wrote a poem in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty when Zhao Ding went to Jin Guo to stay at the post station at night, that is, "Su Lai Tongguan", the poem: "Weibei Taonan has passed the spring, and the ice and snow on the poor side are more sad." came to the inscription of the poem in the same post, and the green light of the broken house was sick. ”

Zhao Chuyan's handwriting is hard work for many years, very good, before in the East Coast capital has been appreciated and sought after by many people, some wealthy businessmen also paid him to help write, hanging in his bedroom or office, so that Zhao Chuyan is very earning a lot of money to polish the pen, but also so that he can have money to continue to play in the East Coast.

The poem that will be sent to several Korean-American East Coast nationals, in addition to the fact that the words are very good, seems to convey his self-deprecation and resentment at the current slightly deplorable situation. After all, he is a dignified envoy of a country, and the people of the East do not receive and accompany him throughout the whole process, even if he doesn't even give enough money, this is really unreasonable! Thinking about the envoys who went to Beijing back then, which one didn't make a lot of money, and went home happily. But let Zhao someone, alas, don't mention it, they are all reduced to selling words for a living, what else is there to say!

The afternoon wandering around Boling County didn't last long, as the northernmost county in Southern Chile was lackluster. The only characteristic is probably that the layout of the city is more reasonable, as the so-called "Dakang Guangmo, all are organized", the pursuit of reasonable layout of the people on the east coast, Zhao Chuyan has been taught many times before, their city management does have a set, North Korea should learn from it.

However, the layout of the city is reasonable, but the architectural characteristics are not very different from those in Middle-earth, which makes Zhao Chuyan, who is accustomed to seeing all kinds of characteristic buildings in shopping malls, Qingdao and other places, and has a bad appetite, really can't arouse too much interest. Therefore, in the end, he hastily ended this shopping trip, returned to the room of the guest house, and sorted out the manuscript with peace of mind, especially the "Eastward Journey", which he regarded as the root of his life, and polished it sentence by sentence and scrutinized word by word, so as to achieve perfection.

On September 14, 1682, after a few days of wandering around the city of Boling County, Zhao Chuyan, who felt that he had nothing to look forward to, left the guest house with his servants and retinue, and took the carriage hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the east coast to go south towards Liucheng Port. Their ship, King Hyeonjong, had encountered strong winds and waves while crossing the Strait of Magellan, and the hull had been damaged to a certain extent, so it was necessary to renovate in the port of Liucheng, which cost a lot of money visually, and the Koreans had to suffer again.

In the following October, they would follow an east-coast fleet north through the Tao Islands, Tahiti, Rabaul, Taiwan, Shandong, and then return to their original departure point of departure on Ganghwa Island in North Korea. Undoubtedly, this was also a feat for the Koreans, although it was a passive circumnavigation of the world led by the people of the East Coast, but it was also the first time for the Korean Kingdom. With their slightly extreme national character, Zhao Chuyan is afraid that he will not be written about in the future, and it is difficult to say whether a writer will be blown into a navigator.

Of course, some people may say that there is a suspicion of leaking secrets by letting the North Korean ships follow the people on the east coast through the Pacific route. Actually, that's a lot of worry! The ships of the people on the east coast have been coming and going to the South Pacific for so many years, and the ships mostly dock at various ports, and there are many exchanges with sailors from other countries, and others are not ignorant of how to take the route, not to mention that the British pirates and Dutch pirates have already crossed the Pacific Ocean, although there is some element of luck, but technically speaking, there is no qualitative difficulty for them. The main reason why they are not taking the South Pacific now is that they are not on the route, and there are many winds and waves here, and there are not enough supply points on the way, so no one wants to come and die.

On October 8, 1682, after spending more than half a month in the port of Liucheng, the home port of the Third Fleet of the East Coast Navy, the Koreans finally arrived to leave. On this day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East Coast Capital also sent a special director to see him off, which made Zhao Chuyan's glass heart a little better. And the director of the department on behalf of the East Coast government before the departure of a batch of gifts, even more so that Zhao someone is grateful, almost to tears, who said that the East people are not generous, this is not a large number of dyed cloth, calico and other rare playthings, shipped back to North Korea can also make thousands of taels of silver, this trip is worth it!

Of course, the director of the department made a special trip to Liucheng Port not only to give a parting gift to the Koreans, but in fact he also carried a letter of state written by Liao Xiaoyao, chairman of the East Coast Executive Committee, and asked him to present it to the king of Korea. The content of the letter is not complicated, except for the routine greetings, the most important thing is to urge the Korean monarchs and ministers to continue to pursue the current policy, unswervingly serve the interests of the East Bank Republic of China for a hundred years, and not be half-hearted, otherwise there will be unforeseen disasters. Of course, in the end, I talked about the hope that the Korean kingdom would reform politics and develop trade, but it was not the point, and I don't know if the Koreans would pay attention to it, so I can only say that I hope so.

Two o'clock in the afternoon that day. After paying half of the repair costs, the "King Hyeonjong" was allowed to leave the port, and then, together with several ships belonging to the Ministry of Immigration and Sun Chunyang's South Freight Shop, adjusted the boom and headed north to set out on the return journey. At the moment of leaving, it is said that Cho Chuyan, the eastern minister of the North Korean side, was still working hard to write, and it seemed that he wanted to carefully improve his work and go back to work. The East Coast diplomat, who learned of this, just smiled and didn't say anything. In any case, if North Korea is civilized, it will not be a bad thing for the East Coast, and at least it will greatly double the turnover of North Korean companies on the East Coast. As for worrying that North Korea will no longer be obedient after it is enlightened and strengthened, it is simply unfounded.